Tsukimi SoBa- Egg Soba Noodles

New Year in Japan is just like Christmas in Canada. Most people spend time with their family, visit a Shinto shrine and eat traditional food - we get cash instead of presents. We usually have 5-10 days off after Christmas.

New Year's day breakfast

On New Year's eve, before midnight, we eat Soba noodles. Noboby can explain why we do it, but this is a tradition that is carried over 400 years. Some say it's for celebrating our long life with long noodles, others say it's for cutting off all the bad things that happened the year.

New Year's eve snack

Ready in: 7 minutes

Ingredients for two:

200g of dry Soba noodles

2 eggs

Some carrots

Some green onions

<Prepare the following in a pan>

3 cups of Dashi stock

1 tablespoon of Sake

2 teaspoons of Mirin

1 tablespoon of soy sauce

Step 1: Heat up the pan with all the wet ingredients.

Cook vegetables and egg at the same time

Step 2: Cook Soba noodles by following the instruction on the package.

Step 3: Place the noodle in a bowl, and pour the soup onto it.



If you change noodles with Mochi rice cake, it will become our traditional New Year's day breakfast.

Bake Mochi rice cakes in the oven

You can add chicken